#week 122

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An Ode to the Goddess of Luo. Ye Lu Ying. Illustration. 2017.

Ye Lu Ying is an award-winning illustrator and designer who studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and China Academy of Art, where she is also currently teaching illustration and cartoon drawing. An Ode to the Goddess of Luo (洛神賦) was written by Han Dynasty poet, Cao Zhi (曹植), and is a narration of his imaginary romantic encounter with the Goddess of Luo (洛神)/Consort Mi (宓妃). Consort Mi became a nymph/water deity after she drowned in the Luo river. As described by Cao Zhi’s poetic, beautiful prose, the Goddess of Luo was the source of inspiration for many famous paintings. 

Ye was immediately drawn to the story of beauty, loneliness and unrequited love and decided to recreate it with a creative combination of modern and traditional illustration techniques. She used ink on ricepaper to draw the fine lines, and later scanned them onto her computer to colour them in. Ye’s modern reconstruction is combined with her imagination to “give everything a spirit,” from the background elements to the nymph’s dress. She focuses on the expression of traditional Chinese culture through art, and as interviewed by China Daily, she states, “I want to share the beauty of traditional culture with everyone through art,” adding that illustration is a good way to introduce traditional Chinese culture to foreigners.

Images courtesy of China Daily

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Here is week 122, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Just Like Heaven -  lesbianophelia aka @knittingbutch

Reflection - juststella aka @justajjfan

Crush It - @savvylark

How Do You Know? - @notanislander

North Star - jlala aka @jlalafics

A Second Chance - @javistg

Before They Knew - @historywriter2007

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

The Raven and The Gods - alliswell aka @alliswell21

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To make a Japanese poem in English we must allow the silence to creep up upon us the way the ninja stalks and strangles his unsuspecting victim. To make an Indian poem in English we must allow the waters of language to rise and drown us like the Ganges until we are reborn in a more accessible form. To make a French poem in English we must impale ourselves upon the Tour Eiffel until our bloodcurdling screams evoke that sublime je ne sais quoi. To make a Spanish poem in English we must let ourselves be gored by the charging bull of poesy as we run like idiots through the streets waving to our friends' cameras. To make an American poem in English we must level the mountains of language with dynamite and in the rubble build an ethnic theme park of charming accents and seething quiet. To make an American poem Chinese we must silence its creepy edges and raise an iron-built mountain that mirrors our own negation to us as if it were gold.

Chinese Silence No.36 by Timothy Yu. 2016.

Timothy Yu is a Chinese American poet and scholar raised in Chicago. He received a BA at Harvard University and a PhD at Stanford University. An author of poetry and criticism, his scholarly work explores the intersections of race, identity, tradition and avant-garde writing. Notably, his first book of criticism won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association of Asian American Studies. 

Chinese Silence No. 36 addresses Tony Barnstone’s poem, The Poem Behind the Poem:

To make a Chinese poem in English we must allow the silence to creep in around the edges, to define the words the way the sky’s negative space in a painting defines the mountains.

The parody of Barnstone’s poem illustrates the underlying cultural appropriation of Asian culture by Americans who use Orientalist tropes to make a poem appear “more Asian.” Yu’s poem appears in his newest book, 100 Chinese Silences, which is a project that demonstrates the silenced presence of Asians in American culture.

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Awaken by Zinan Lam (林子楠). 2018

Zinan Lam is a visual artist based in Shanghai. Integrating traditional East Asian philosophy into the making of surrealist paintings and installations, Lam proposes the idea of Exportism that calls for the reclamation of eastern aesthetics and the reversal of the one-sided influence from the West.

Snow lion is a symbol of protection and power in Tibetan Buddhism. The composition corresponds to the often quoted symbol of Yin and Yang that indicates harmony. While the blue featured in the background represents wisdom and peace, the golden gate symbolizes the sun. Through the play of symbols, the artists conveys his own idea of “awakening East” on a societal and cultural level.

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